Services were held at Stanetsky Memorial Chapels in Brookline for Milton
C. Borenstein '35, the first Jewish trustee of Boston College, who
served two terms on the university's board from 1979-83 and 1983-87.

Mr. Borenstein, of Brookline, who died Sept. 23 at 89, was an innovator,
designing a pleated cup that became ubiquitous in dentist offices, and a
disposable waxed cup that helped make yogurt a staple in refrigerators
nationwide.

He also was an ecumenist, serving as a trustee at his Catholic alma
mater at the same time he was president of Congregation Kehillath Israel.

Boston College awarded him the Bald Eagle Outstanding Alumnus award in
1991.

After graduating cum laude from Boston College in 1935, he was
salutatorian of his Harvard Law School class in 1938, and won a landmark
bankruptcy case shortly after admission to practice before the U.S.
Supreme Court.

He joined his father-in-law at Sweetheart Paper Products in Chelsea in
1944 and helped guide the company for decades. He was also a former
executive vice president at Maryland Cup Corporation.

Mr. Borenstein was on the board of directors at American Jewish Congress
and American Friends of Hebrew University, was a trustee of Combined
Jewish Philanthropies, associate chairman of the scholarship committee
of Harvard Law School and founder of the United States Holocaust Museum
in Washington, DC.

He was the beloved husband of 66 years of the late Anne (Shapiro). He is survived by his daughter Roberta, of Wilton, CT, his son Jeffrey, of West Newton, and three grandchildren.